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ISSUE 21 - 12th December 2014
IMPORTANT DATES
2015
TERM 1 BOOK SALES/COLLECTION DAY Thursday 22nd January WEEK 1: Tuesday 27th January, 8:40am - WELCOME BACK
Friday 30th January, SPLASH DASH
*All dates and times were correct at
the time of printing.
Dear Parents and Caregivers
Merry Christmas and Farewell
2014 has been a very full year and a landmark one in several ways. So many of our students have been recognized in one way or another at special sectional assemblies or Presentation Night. Well done to you all. Krystal Scanlon, Josh Wiebrecht, Braiden Walton, Brett Dodd and Chad Westlake have completed 12 years of schooling at Mannum, which is quite a record. The Year 12 formal on the PS Marion was just wonderful. I believe I am going to present 7 children with 100% attendance records for the entire school year of 2014 which is a record. I am so thrilled that my constant rerminders about being at school for learning has shown such growth over the last five years.
There have been many opportunities for students to involve themselves in the wider life of school. There has been Sports Day, Swimming Carnival, Motivational Speakers organised by Joy Marks, CMASSA, Pedal Prix, School leadership and House Captaincy, the Governor’s Reception, The Peace Run, Book Week, Health of the River, Year 9 Careers Camp, Gala Day, Footsteps Dance program, near completion of the works on Baseby Cottage and the start of our ILC Baseby Hub. There has been Eastern Zone netball, football, surfing and cross country and even in the last week of term a Rugby workshop. Our students showed compassion when we were invited to a Memorial Service for the Australians who lost their lives when the Malaysian Airlines plane was shot down. They participated respectfully during R U OK Week, Reconciliation Week and our Remembrance Day Service at school. We have had nothing but positive feedback from organisers of these events about how well our students join in and behave.
This year has been a curriculum development year bringing the last stages of the R-10 rollout of the Australian Curriculum and working together as a staff on lesson design, assessment practices and personalising the learning with engaging and differentiated teaching strategies. The staff have been very busy. They have also undertaken a load of professional development on their own time. As I sign off the DECD required form I am seeing many more hours than the mandatory 37.5hrs.
Many students have been working on “pathways” courses adding variety to their Year 10, 11 and 12 studies. The PLP has been completed by most
Year 10’s and I was fortunate to attend three presentations: very impressive. Since 2009 we have made steady improvement in our NAPLAN mean scores in most Literacy areas and also in Numeracy. We have planned for and begun Intervention groups to help students with specific skill development. We have introduced the “Quicksmart” program to help build basic numer-acy skills
This is the time of the year when we farewell some staff and welcome others, Ms Georgina Sweet is taking another year’s leave in 2015. We wish Mr Greg Kurtzer, Ms Caitlyn Waechter, Ms Kate De Ravin and Ms Rhianna James the very best for the future and thank them for their efforts at MCC in 2014 and we welcome Ms Cherie Nillissen, Ms Lauren Dowling and Mr Jacob Strauss to MCC and we welcome back Ms Michelle Grieger and Ms Arlea Brodie in 2015. We are awaiting one further position to be confirmed but the 2015 year will begin with a full staff complement and classes have been organ-ised.
I wish everyone a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year. I look forward to hearing good news about the school in 2015 and I thank you all for the support you have given to me and to the staff as we have worked together to build a better school and make Mannum Community College ‘School of Choice’. It has been a privilege being the princi-pal between 2010 and 2014 and the five years have passed all too quickly. I extend a big welcome to the incoming Principal Ms Sue Record and wish her all the best. She has come to a good school and I’m sure she will be deter-mined to work with you all to make it even better!
Kind regards
Leonie Falland
FROM THE PRINCIPAL
INFORMATION BULLETIN
49-71 Walker Avenue
MANNUM SA 5238
Phone: 85691503
Fax: 85691082
Email:
Web:
www.mcc.sa.edu.au
2015
FROM THE CANTEEN
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
26th
PUBLIC HOLIDAY
27th
V Tarca
28th
J Schellen
29th
K Houston
30th
A Rasigatale
L Matakanace
2nd
H McDonnell
3rd
J Weber
4th
P Vanderstelt
5th
R Paech
6th
F Weber
M a n n u m S c h o o l M a n n u m S c h o o l C o m m u n i t y L i b r a r yC o m m u n i t y L i b r a r y
C h r i s t m a s h o u r sC h r i s t m a s h o u r s Mon 15th Dec 2014 10am – 2pm Tues 16th Dec 2014 10am – 2pm Wed 17th Dec 2014 10am – 2pm / 4pm – 8pm Thurs 18th Dec 2014 10am – 2pm Fri 19th Dec 2014 10am – 2pm Sat 20th Dec 2014 Closed Mon 22nd Dec 2014 CLOSED
School holiday hours resume on
Monday 5th January 2015 until
Tuesday 27th January 2015 when
school term time hours
commence.
Tues 23rd Dec 2014
Wed 24th Dec 2014
Thurs 25th Dec 2014
Fri 26th Dec 2014
Sat 27th Dec 2014
Mon 29th Dec 2014
Tues 30th Dec 2014
Wed 31st Dec 2014
Thurs 1st Jan 2015
Fri 2nd Jan 2015
Sat 3rd Jan 2015
Merry
Christmas
Marau na
Kersimasi Maligayang
Pasko
Feliz
Navidad
Mele
Kalikimaka
Vrolijk
Kerstfeest
Kuwa na
Krismasi
njema
Sung Tan
Chuk Ha
Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu
Shen Tan
Shub Naya
Baras
I’d Miilad Said
oua Sana
Saida
Meri
Kirhimete
19th
HOLIDAYS
20th
21st
22nd
BOOK/SALES
COLLECTION
DAY
23rd W
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0
26th
PUBLIC HOLIDAY
27th
TERM 1, 2015
BEGINS
28th
29th
30th
SPLASH
DASH
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2015
BOOK COLLECTION DAY
Our Book Collection Day for 2015 will be on
22nd January.
School fees for 2015 are as follows:
$226 for Reception - Year 7 students
$299 for Year 8 - 12 students
We will be posting home our information pack detailing our opening times, book fees, etc, on the 14th January.
Tuesday 23rd Dec 5 - 9 pm
Mt Pleasant Showgrounds
Fresh fruit & vegetables, bread, seafood, meat, wine, cheese, preserves, plants
Tastings
Dinner menu - live music
Father Christmas
Easy Parking
Customer & Stallholder enquiries:
[email protected] or 0418301121
NO Market on Saturday 27 December.
Christmas Twilight Market
